<div dir="ltr"><div>This is why I stopped using physical partitions and LVM instead entirely.</div><div><br></div><div>If you fill your physical partition, it really doesn't like it, and all hell breaks loose, as you see. Boot from a boot cd, clear some space, and reboot.</div><div><br></div><div>Start with "sudo du -h --max-depth=1", figure out what is filling your disk, and delete some. Reboot. Usually logs, updates, packages, etc cruft - kill it all.</div><div><br></div><div>When it's sane, move to a more agreeable FS structure, use LVM, I can fill a disk and stay up, much less impact if/when this occurs.</div><div><br></div><div>I break /var and /var/log into separate partitions always, these are typically what fill and break. Keep them separate with LVM's, much happier to recover if any one fills up. I normally keep /usr with debians separate too, but arch installs hate this. Also I keep /home separate, as I fill this commonly, which breaks anything running in userland if/when occurring.</div><div><br></div><div>Funny, I do this because this is how we installed solaris this way with slices like +20-some years ago to not blow up, but over-simplification these days ignores fun facts like these.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:57 PM joe--- via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Yesterday, I did another update on my Linux Mint 17 system<br>
and today numerous things that previously worked fine<br>
no longer work, including Libre Office.<br>
<br>
And, I now see that all the space on sda1 is filled<br>
so I have zero space available.<br>
<br>
Also, I tried to download a pdf file which should have<br>
gone to sda6 and I got a message "No space available."<br>
<br>
What can I do to remedy this nightmare?<br>
<br>
I am willing to pay for help if one of my PLUG<br>
friends would be willing to help me fix this.<br>
<br>
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on<br>
udev 4006644 4 4006640 1% /dev<br>
tmpfs 805480 1560 803920 1% /run<br>
/dev/sda1 19091584 18141912 0 100% /<br>
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup<br>
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock<br>
none 4027392 25920 4001472 1% /run/shm<br>
none 102400 20 102380 1% /run/user<br>
/dev/sda6 101787928 33524948 63069256 35% /home<br>
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